Introduction: Utilizing the power of AI (artificial intelligence), which refers

Introduction:
Utilizing the power of AI (artificial intelligence), which refers to the simulation of human-like intelligence in machines that are programmed to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence (e.g., reasoning; problem-solving; learning; perception; understanding natural language; decision-making), you are to have a dialogue with AI.
Your AI will begin by using one of the 16 dialogue prompts below. Incorporating questions and resources my handout attached, “Now that’s a Good Question,” you are to engage AI just like you would be dialoguing and analyzing claims made by others using critical thinking skills you are learning in this course.
But after your dialogue ends, you must critique what AI said. AI is known to fabricate information, make false claims, misuse quotes or even mention wrong authors and non-existent books. Therefore, you will not only be evaluated by the nature of your dialogue (e.g., the types of questions you ask) but also your ability to critique AI by ensuring AI has genuinely given you factual information. See, no matter the medium, critical thinking skills are paramount!
5-page minimal (no maximum), single-space dialogue with AI. You will specifically collaborate with the AI language generator, Chat-GPT, incorporating it as a tool for learning.
Why a Dialogue?
In philosophy, religious studies, and other disciplines of study in the Liberal Arts Tradition, one of the most substantive ways to learn, think, and learn from is by dialogue. Like Socrates, Aristotle, Confucius, Buddha, Jesus, and others, the opportunity is before us to engage in a dialogue format. Plato’s Euthyphro and the Symposium (see attached) offer excellent examples of the dialogue you are being asked to create. Notice the statements said in these two early dialogues Socrates had recorded by Plato. Look at the questions asked and responses given. You are to be that critical, too, by analyzing truth claims made by AI.
A Warning:
Once again, out of an abundance of caution, please remember that every thinker (including Pascal) makes mistakes. AI is no exception. The dialogue will need to be evaluated by you.
Conclusion:
Equipped with the power of poiesis (Ancient Greek, ποίησις), UM spirit, and more, let’s be curious, teachable, and reflective. Always asking good questions and being a “good listener,” you may be surprised by what you learn! Since AI can output false statements (as seen in student papers already), including the generation of citations that don’t exist, part of your work as the outstanding UM student you are is to check or verify its output and correct it recursively as needed. You will leave the dialogue unedited, apart from edits permitted in the Chat-GPT interface.
Afterward, at the dialogue’s end, paste it into a Word document and perform a critique. So, the main focus of your dialogue assignment is twofold: dialogue itself (asking good questions) and the critique.
Recommended Outline:
1. Introduction. But your introduction around your conversation with AI (hint: write your introduction after you have your dialogue). Also, be sure you state why you chose the dialogue prompt you did
2. Copy and paste the actual unedited dialogue into the paper.
3. Place your part of the dialogue in boldface to distinguish you from AI.
4. After the dialogue ends, write a critique explaining what AI got right and what AI got wrong.
5. Write a conclusion with specific applications or reflections about what you learned from this dialogue and critique of AI’s statements.
More details:
1 Length Requirements: 5 pages minimum, no maximum.
2 Format: single-space your essay, using 12-pt Times New Roman font with page numbers
3 1-inch margins.
4 Please provide a (1) cover sheet
5 Please provide a bibliography or works cited page for any additional sources used.
Once again, for the dialogue portion of the assignment, please use boldface to distinguish your contributions from those of Chat-GPT.
When studing world religions, some of the greatest questions to explore include:
1. What is the nature of ultimate reality?
2. What is the purpose or meaning of life?
3. How do different religions understand and explain suffering and evil?
4. Whar are the key ethical principles, values, and teachings within a specific religion (e.g., Hinduism)?
5. How do different religions interpret the origin of evil?
6. How does the problem of evil influence individual behavior and societal norms?
7. How do religions address the concept of evil and salvation?
8. How do religions interact with and respond to natural evil?
9. How do different religions perceive the relationship between humanity and the divine or the transcendent?
10. What are the similarities and difference among various religious traditions, and how do they contribute to global religious diversity?
11. Is religion beneficial or poisonous to society?
12. How do religions view the human body after physical death?
13. What did Blaise Pascal mean when he claimed, “People invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive”?
14. Why do good and godly people interpret religious passages differently?
15. Is there consciousness after physical death?
16. How is evil personified in world religions?
Additional helps:
From the response to AI’s initial and ongoing dialogue, think like a detective by adapting the questions recommended in the handout attached to your dialogue. But how? Well, look for keywords used by AI. Any word emphasized, repeated, related, alike, or unalike…focus on them and build good questions around them like, “What do you mean by ____?”
You may be surprised by what happens when good questions are used in a dialogue with AI!